Apply OpenType features
- From the Character palette menu, choose one of the following
from the OpenType submenu:
- Standard Ligatures
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Are typographic replacements for certain pairs of characters,
such as fi, fl, ff, ffi, and ffl.
Type with the Standard Ligatures and Discretionary Ligatures options unselected and selected
- Contextual Alternates
- Are alternative characters included in some script typefaces to provide better joining behavior. For example, when using Caflisch Script Pro with contextual alternatives enabled, the letter pair “bl” in the word “bloom” is joined so that it looks more like handwriting.
- Discretionary Ligatures
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Are typographic replacement characters for letter pairs,
such as ct, st, and ft.
Note: Although the characters in ligatures appear to be joined, they are fully editable and do not cause the spelling checker to flag a word erroneously.
- Swash
- Substitutes swash glyphs, stylized letterforms with extended strokes (exaggerated flourishes).
- Old Style
- Are numerals shorter than regular numerals, with some old style numerals descending below the type baseline.
- Stylistic Alternates
- Formats stylized characters that create a purely aesthetic effect.
- Titling Alternatives
- Formats characters (usually all in capitals) designed for use in large‑size settings, such as titles.
- Ornaments
- Are devices that add a personal signature to the type family and can be used as title page decoration, paragraph markers, dividers for blocks of text, or as repeated bands and borders.
- Ordinals
- Automatically formats ordinal numbers (such as 1st and 2nd) with superscript characters. Characters such as the superscript in the Spanish words segunda and segundo (2a and 2o) are also typeset properly.
- Fractions
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Automatically formats fractions; numbers separated by
a slash (such as 1/2) are converted to a shilling fraction (such
as
).
You can’t preview OpenType features, such as contextual
alternates, ligatures, and glyphs in Photoshop before you apply
them. However, you can preview and apply OpenType features by using
the Adobe Illustrator Glyphs palette. Copy and paste your text into
Adobe Illustrator and use the Glyphs palette to preview and apply OpenType
features. You can then paste the text back into Photoshop.For a tutorial on viewing glyphs in Adobe Illustrator, see www.adobe.com/go/learn_ps_viewglyphsai.